"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
JACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN, MORGAN CO., IN.
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F. M. COLEMAN, retired farmer, was born April 10, 1823, in the State of
Ohio, and is the fifth of the eight children of Jacob and Elizabeth (Thomas)
Coleman, the former a native of Virginia, the latter of Pennsylvania, and
respectively of German and English descent. F. M. Coleman was reared a
farmer, and received but sixteen days' schooling; yet he has made himself a
fair scholar by application. When he was sixteen years old, his parents
moved to Johnson County, Ind., where he remained until 1880, engaged in
farming, at which time he sold his place and retired to Morgantown. He
began business when of age; was always successful and industrious, and when
young worked at wagon-making, coopering and blacksmithing, when not employed
on his farm. He has also dealt largely in and been a shipper of stock. May
14, 1845, he married Miss Mary A. Woolard, who died August 6, 1877, having
borne seven children--Eliza J., Jacob (deceased), Lavica, Maranda H.,
Ophelia, Margaret (deceased) and Marion. His second wife was Miss Ada
Wright, a graduate of Lebanon College, Ohio, the ceremony taking place
December 24, 1881. This lady died in less than one year. His third wife is
Rebecca Stephens, a native of Putnam county, Ind., and also a graduate of
Lebanon College, which ceremony was performed May 17, 1883. Mr. Coleman is
an active member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities. He is a
liberal and respected gentleman, and votes with the Democratic party.
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